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Harry Reid’s unconstitutional oil bill.

You know, when you can’t even get Talking Points Memo – look at the name, people – to sign off on your own side’s bill, you have a problem. In this particular case: in his haste to throw up (use of term deliberate, of course) some sort of pseudo-clever agitprop on ending oil subsidies, the Transcendent Benevolent Cosmic Space Teacher currently manifesting in our dimension as Senator Harry Reid has forgotten one small, minor, technical detail. To wit: as written the bill raises revenue, and all bills that raise revenue must originate in the House of Representatives.

All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

And this is why the new House leadership insisted – insisted - that the new session start with the Constitution being read. It’s because you can never assume that any Democratic politician has read the blessed thing.